New processes are continually rolled out by mid and upper management without an understanding of the. Supercomputer maker cray has launched the xt5m, a midrange supercomputer based on its topoftheline xt5. Linux kernel coscheduling for bulk synchronous parallel. The system is characterized by exascale performance capability, new datacentric workloads, and an explosion of processor and accelerator architectures. We present a performance analysis for a highly accurate, largescale electromagnetic wave propagation model on two modern supercomputing platforms. Salishan, april 28th, 2011 it goes without saying that this somewhat pejorative term doesnt apply to any of the fine people in this room, all of whom, in my experience. Jaguar, xt4, xt5, lustre, exascale, olcf, top500, istanbul. Internals of a quadcore based cray xt4 node jaguar processors were upgraded to dualcore opteron model 100 2.
The department of energys oak ridge national laboratory has awarded a contract to cray inc. Pdf architecture independence download ebook for free. Cray xt3 supercomputer scalable by design cray xt3 datasheet introducing the third generation massively parallel processor mpp system from craythe cray xt3 supercomputer. Cray xt5m midrange supercomputer builds market momentum.
At the end of 2009, the supercomputer cray xt5, also known as the jaguar, in the linpack test shows a performance of 1. Advanced computer architectures focuses on the design of high performance supercomputers with balanced coverage of the hardware, software structures, and application characteristics. Compute node linux cnl is a runtime environment based on the linux kernel for the cray xt3, cray xt4, cray xt5, cray xt6, cray xe6 and cray xk6 supercomputer systems based on. Cray to upgrade its xt5 jaguar supercomputer at ornl. The cray xmt is a shared memory parallel computer consisting primarily of. Cheftec xt5 functionality culinary software services. National supercomputing center in tianjin nudt th mpp, x5670 2. Gpuaccelerated system of at least 10 petaflops to provide exceptional scientific computing. John levesque works in the chief technology office at cray inc. Advanced computer architecture and computing download. To achieve true scaling today, even at midrange size, one needs a full portfolio of network, software and infrastructure support, which cray provides in the xt5m. The new offering inherits the basic architectural elements of its petascale. The cray xt5 is an updated version of the cray xt4 supercomputer, launched on november 6, 2007.
Application performance in the multicore era lessons to. Though the personal computer was born from garage projects, the supercomputer had been declining to the back of the. A call to action hardware has changed dramatically while software ecosystem has remained stagnant previous approaches have not looked at codesign of multiple levels in the system software stack os. Mainframes and supercomputers, from the beginning till. Cray, a hewlett packard enterprise company, grounded in decades of hpc expertise, specializes in supercomputers and solutions for storage and analytics. The cray xt architectures are evaluated with microbenchmarks and benchmarks in vetter et al. Several fundamental characteristics of the architecture have changed with this upgrade, which have a wideranging impact. Jaguar cray xt5 supercomputer is ranked number 2 in the top500 list, but only 81 in the green500 list. Cray xt3 and cray xt series of supercomputers springerlink. Compute node linux wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Impact of quadcore cray xt4 system and software stack on.
Cray now has four customer systems with greater than onepetaflop of peak performance, two cray xe6 systems and two cray xt5 systems. It was again upgraded april, 2007, with three major improvements. Cle, a suite of high performance software including a suse. Oak ridge national laboratory awards contract to cray for. Experimental results for a linux implementation on a cray xt5 machine are presented. The cray xt5h system couples scalar processing capability with high memorybandwidth vector processing and reconfigurable coprocessing using field programmable gate array technology, silverman said. Cray introduces nextgeneration supercomputers cray inc. Cray announced late this week that theyll be shipping amds new shanghai opteron in its xt5 in early 2009 cray inc. Hpc solutions, high performance cluster computing cray.
By 2009, the largest computer system cray had delivered was the cray xt5 system. The rise, fall, and rise of the supercomputer in the cloud era. Capable of extended operation up to 23 hours day with regular. Optional network module for projector monitoring and control. Cray user group 2011 proceedings 1 of 8 memphis on an xt5. Customers can upgrade to the cray xe6 system from the cray xt4, cray xt5 or cray xt6 systems by upgrading the network, processors, memory and a compute blade, thereby leveraging their investment. Impact of quadcore cray xt4 system and software stack on scientific computation 3 in order to support this scale of computing, jaguar has been upgraded from a 119 teraflops capability to 262 teraflops tflops. By reusing asics, boards, cabinets, and system software used by the. Distributed and cloud computing kavitha samayadurai. Impact of quadcore cray xt4 system and software stack 337 gbytes of memory maintaining the per core memory at 2 gbytes. Building on over 45,000 customers and over 20 years of experience creating software solutions for the foodservice. Psc customized sherlock with additional cray xt5 nodes having standard x86. The cray xt5 is an updated version of the cray xt4 supercomputer, launched on november 6.
Subsequent products have included the cray xt4, cray xt5, and cray xt6 supercomputers, each based on successive versions of amd opteron processor, but essentially retaining the basic cray xt3. Distributed and cloud computing from parallel processing to the internet of things kai hwang geoffrey c. This paper describes the architecture of jaguar with combined xt4 and xt5 nodes along with an. The cray cs300ac system is integrated with the hpc software stack, software tools compatible with most open source and commercial compilers, tools, schedules and libraries to run complex. Detailed features and specs for the 2018 cadillac xt5 suv including fuel economy, transmission, warranty, engine type, cylinders, drivetrain and more. Theres a feeling of fear about sticking your neck out. The cray xt5m will broaden our customer base while extending the cray experience to new users and new market segments, said cray ceo and president peter ungaro. Pinpointing memory performance problems on cray platforms collin mccurdy, jeffrey vetter, patrick h. The two main areas of concern were architecture independence and data management. This was a clustered smp vector processor architecture, developed from j90. This illustrates the current trend to construct acceleratorbased supercomputers for better energy. Pdf the cray xt system at ornl is the world s most powerful. Build a 2017 cadillac xt5 online for free using the vehicle configurator tool.
A quantitative approach, fifth edition, explores the ways that software and technology in the cloud are accessed by digital media, such as cell phones, computers. Cray s new supercomputer architecture, codenamed shasta, is an entirely new design that will underpin the next era of supercomputing. So, cray xt5m customers are buying into a broader portfolio than just a typical midrange system. Assembling a cray xt5 supercomputer data center knowledge. Pdf impact of quadcore cray xt4 system and software. The cray xe6 supercomputer takes the proven cray xt5 infrastructure and incorporates it with two innol. Cray built the worlds first production petaflops system with. Architecture independent software facilitates software portability and improves the longevity and utility of the. Impact of quadcore cray xt4 system and software stack on scientific computation 3 in order to support this scale of computing, jaguar has been upgraded from a 119 teraflops capability to 262. Cray and intel to collaborate to develop future supercomputing technologies announced on april 28, 2008. Coping at the userlevel with resource limitations in the cray message passing toolkit mpi at scale. The cray xc30 combines the new aries interconnect, intel xeon processors, crays powerful and fullyintegrated software environment, and innovative power and cooling technologies to create a. The common criteria evaluation and validation scheme ccevs is a national security agency nsa effort to establish commercial facilities to perform trusted product evaluations. Application performance in the multicore era lessons to be learned for exascale computing tales from the trenches gerhard wellein department for computer science erlangen regional computing.
Comprehensive multiyear agreement to advance highperformance computing on intel. The cray xt3 is a distributed memory massively parallel mimd supercomputer designed by cray inc. Building on the cray xt5 foundation, the xt5h integrates multiple processor architectures with a complete software development environment into a single system supporting diverse workflows. Theyre buying into the demonstrated petascale scalability of the xt5 architecture. He is also director of crays supercomputing center of. Cray upgrades kraken supercomputer with sixcore amd. As before, nodes are connected in a 3dimensional torus topology, now. With the cray xt5 system as its foundation, the cray xt5h supercomputer integrates multiple processor architectures with a complete software development environment into a single system supporting diverse workflows.